I’ve been in a dialogue with one John Smith under an old YouTube video about aspects of the CO2 cycle understanding ca. 2001. I have some posts about highlights almost, but not quite, ready to put up. However there was this odd tidbit that occurred which I believe is worth quickly posting because it gets to the heart of GOP’s ruthless ME FIRST mentality in action and how it needs to stifle constructive learning dialogue. The very thing I’m trying to expose and hopefully to help force into the public discourse this election season.
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John Hyndman, July 2, 2018 writes: citizenschallengeYT LOL! I never even watched the video, it just appeared on my playlist one day. YT's algos sometimes offers totally irrelevant videos. Example: Teenage make-up application tips or how to braid hair. WTF does a 60 year old man give a shi_ about that stuff for?
Notice the tactic, focus on the messenger, study, invade, look for anything, not finding, make it up, who cares. Trashing is the goal. Winning is all that matters in this new GOP world of ME FIRST.
Hyndman’s actions/words underscore the punk nature of his myopic worldview. Avoid the real issues and questions, trash all messengers, stifle, or out scream every attempt at constructive educational dialogue.
Create a storyline out of one’s own filthy imagination, give it wings. John Hyndman and pals this is supposed to be about understanding our living planet and the biosphere all of us depend on.
Science is about studying and learning, but all you want is a mud fight in order to ignore reality. { I’m told I’m rude, okay Smith, talk about rude, what about Hyndman here and his thuggish attempt to derail the discussion??? }
This is the sort of stuff that serious science communication has been dealing with for decades.
Think Seitz, Singer, Lindzen god-fathers of science by slander and rhetorical misdirection who started all this.
